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No lasix needed here
After all the talk do you think they wouldn't use lasix if he raced over here again?
"Rich Tapestry finished last in the Xpressbet Breeders' Cup Sprint and was found to have substantial blood and dirt on his trachea when scoped by vets in a post-race examination." http://racing.scmp.com/freeservice/n...s20141104b.asp |
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Demonstrating once again how great running without Lasix is for both the bettors and the horse!
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He didn't use it because he wouldn't be able to race in Hong Kong again
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Get rid of lasix so this can happen MORE and MORE
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These arguments for lasix shown in this thread are ridiculously simplistic.
Let's just dismiss all the KNOWN problems with diuretics so we can beat our chests that in this one instance, we were right. Cause, you know, if you are right once, you are right all the time. |
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I suppose not, but the chest thumping righteousness is a bit much.
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You don't even know if the horse wouldn't have bled with Lasix being used, which happens more than you seem to realize. Prime example? If that's one of the best examples you can come up with, the pro Lasix camp has already lost. |
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A favorite in one of the biggest, most heavily bet, races of the year coming off a monster run that inexplicably backs up to last when in good position to make a run seems to be a pretty prime example of why Lasix is both good for the horse and for the bettors.
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i would direct you to the lasix study steve linked to on here a few weeks back.
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Yeah cuz it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that Rich Tapestry sat on a slow pace in his last race and tried to keep up with a wicked pace in the BrCup Sprint...surely couldn't be that.
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Do we know if he has bled in the past?
He's never run on Lasix and has backed out of it more than a few times. Admittedly, he hasn't completely caved in like he did in the BrCup, but if he has a history of these problems AND faced a pace that was out of his league the result isn't a total mystery. I just cannot presume that Lasix would have put him in the picture down the lane...and this comes from a guy that bet him on a few of my tickets. Looked like he could be a star after beating some top notch runners in his USA debut. |
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It continues to be very strange to me that people who supposedly care about horses and/or horseplayers would be OK with a situation like Rich Tapestry's, where the horse went through unnecessary suffering and unfairly burned people's money because of it. This is a topic where pretty horsey people to hardcore gamblers and everyone in between should be united and yet, it continues to be incredibly contentious every time it's broached. I don't get it. |
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This is the modern day problem, especially here in the Western world. If there is a problem, whether human or animal, let's just fix it with medication. Instead of attempting to fix the problem with other means we will just taper it and mask it with drugs. Maybe if a horse has constant problems bleeding its body is saying that he shouldn't be racing in the first place. And for those that are complaining about how cessation of Lasix would cause more instances such as this in the future, well that becomes part and parcel of the game. I don't see gamblers in other racing jurisdictions complaining when it happens, and in fact I'd actually be inclined to believe that it actually happens a lot less in those places. I see how fragile the modern day North American thoroughbred is and compare it to England, Australia, HK, etc. They seem to be much more durable there, so clearly they're doing something right. |
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At least with lasix we know the playing field is almost level. |
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There may eventually come along something better than Lasix, but it's still going to have to be something that takes water away from the lungs. Ultimately, we are asking equine athletes to fight against their own evolution, which was to walk slowly with their heads down for very long periods of time. (on a soapbox note- and the anti-carriage horse contingent claim carriage work, walking slowly with the head down for long stretches of time, is unnatural? Flying Spaghetti Monster save us.) I don't see any statistical proof that European horses are more durable than American horses, nor that their top racers have any more starts than ours before being shuttled off to the breeding shed.
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